Resident Evil Apocalypse

Console game movie tie ins are notoriously awful, and usually lacking in every department. The movie world is littered with movie tie ins that have bombed and left deep emotional scars on those who have had the misfortune of watching them. It is with this knowledge that I hurled myself into the world of Resident Evil Apocalypse

It follows on from the original Resident Evil following Alice (Milla Jovovich). After her capture she comes around in a research facility and feels different.

Simultaneously the containment in the Umbrella Corps Laboratory, stupidly built below Racoon city is breached unleashing a plague of the undead on the unsuspecting citizens.. Zombie holocaust ensues.

The story follows a couple of different characters some cops, special forces ops and a scientist who lost his daughter during the cities evacuation (of the note the easy on the eye Sienna Guillory who plays hard cop Valentine, who dishes out justice in tight short clothes with a large gun)

The scientist contacts the main group of protagonists to go and get his daughter, in the mean time, the evil Umbrella Corp. unleash their secret weapon to contain the out break, Nemesis a bio solider who we later find out is the Alice’s mate from the first film and a prototype bio weapon like herself.

In short they find the kid, use kung fu to kill zombies, fight and shoot things. In the finale we discover that the infection was deliberate to test the new bio weapons that have an 80’s styled show down at the end… Alice on the verge of defeat, Nemesis searches his soul and realises they are friends and turns on his master (yawn) the film ends

Oh hold on it doesn’t some more fleshing out, helicopter they escape in crashes Alice gets captured and again and tinkered with, she escapes with lab(agian) with the help of the survivors.. but wait dun dun da …they let her escape so the tests could continue

Brainless entertaining tripe the sort of movie that is a decade and a half too late, entertaining but doesn’t tell you anything about the human condition.